· Public charity
Building Direction for Families Inc
Bdf is the local iowa community empowerment area and de-categorization project in buchanan, delaware and fayette counties in iowa involving local community members and early care, health and education professionals in collaborative efforts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $581k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARENT SHARE & SUPPORT | $157,499 |
| REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $120,605 |
| CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRA | $108,892 |
| FAMILIES INC | $78,176 |
| PRESCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS | $57,882 |
| CENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTI | $57,562 |
| NE IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION | $49,959 |
| NORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMM ACT | $10,330 |
| HELPING SRVCS FOR YOUTH & FAM | $10,278 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PSPARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $729k · revenue +5% · 84% of their budget
- EPEXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $572k · revenue +25%
- CICENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $453k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- ICINDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRone grant, 2020 · $25k
- JCJESUP COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Provide counseling and education for the prevention of alcohol and drug related problems to the residents of northwest iowa.
To improve the health and well-being of all by empowering communities, organizations, and people to take informed actions to prevent and mitigate the lifelong effects of childhood adversity.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
Faciltate a team of industry professionals to bring initiatives, education and awareness to skilled trades in iowa
The organization was created to own the property and operate a childcare facility serving the east mills community school district and the surrounding areas.
To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes…
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
The mission of crisis intervention service (cis) is to provide persons affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and homicide with professional, confidential, 24-hour services including safety and support and to prevent violence in our…
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Fayette Valley Community Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PARENT SHARE AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Building Direction for Families Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.